Large N duality and integrable systems

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Friday, October 3, 2008 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Tony Pantev – Dept of Mathematics, University of Penn
Organizer
Stavros Garoufalidis
I will describe a framework which relates large N duality to the geometry of degenerating Calabi-Yau spaces and the Hitchin integrable system. I will give a geometric interpretation of the Dijkgraaf-Vafa large N quantization procedure in this context.